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The Pulsar Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (PALFA) survey, the most sensitive blind search for radio pulsars yet conducted, is ongoing at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The vast majority of the 180 pulsars discovered by PALFA have spin…

Discovery of pulsars is one of the main goals for large radio telescopes. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam receiver with a system temperature of about 20~K, is the most…

Searches for millisecond-duration, dispersed single pulses have become a standard tool used during radio pulsar surveys in the last decade. They have enabled the discovery of two new classes of sources: rotating radio transients and fast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-17 D. Michilli , J. W. T. Hessels , R. J. Lyon , C. M. Tan , C. Bassa , S. Cooper , V. I. Kondratiev , S. Sanidas , B. W. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen

We present an overview of the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey that exploits the MWA's large field of view and voltage capture system to survey the sky south of 30 degree in declination for pulsars and fast transients…

It is an active topic to investigate the schemes based on machine learning (ML) methods for detecting pulsars as the data volume growing exponentially in modern surveys. To improve the detection performance, input features into an ML model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Haitao Lin , Xiangru Li , Ziying Luo

Data collection for scientific applications is increasing exponentially and is forecasted to soon reach peta- and exabyte scales. Applications which process and analyze scientific data must be scalable and focus on execution performance to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-09 Thomas Devine , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Di Pang

The search for pulsars in a sample of pulsar candidates found based on a multi-year survey conducted with low (6 channels; sampling 0.1s) time-frequency resolution on declinations -9^o < \delta < +42^o was carried out. A Large Phased Array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , G. E. Tyul'basheva

The search for gravitational waves using Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is a computationally expensive complex analysis that involves source-specific noise studies. As more pulsars are added to the arrays, this stage of PTA analysis will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Lorenzo Speri , Nataliya K. Porayko , Mikel Falxa , Siyuan Chen , Jonathan R. Gair , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

The Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA) is a phase-coherent search technique for periodic signals. It has rarely been used in radio pulsar searches, having been historically supplanted by the less computationally expensive Fast Fourier Transform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 V. Morello , E. D. Barr , B. W. Stappers , E. F. Keane , A. G. Lyne

Pulsars have proven instrumental in exploring a wide variety of physics. Pulsars at low radio frequencies is crucial to further our understanding of spectral properties and emission mechanisms.The Murchison Widefield Array Voltage Capture…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 S. Sett , N. D. R. Bhat , M. Sokolowski , E. Lenc

We describe several new techniques which accelerate Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational-wave emission from supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing arrays. These techniques mitigate the problematic increase of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-25 Stephen Taylor , Justin Ellis , Jonathan Gair

Relativistic binary pulsars orbiting white dwarfs and neutron stars have already provided excellent tests of gravity. However, despite observational efforts, a pulsar orbiting a black hole has remained elusive. One possible explanation is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Vishnu Balakrishnan , David Champion , Ewan Barr , Michael Kramer , V. Venkatraman Krishnan , Ralph P. Eatough , Rahul Sengar , Matthew Bailes

The fast Fourier transform (FFT) based periodicity search methods provide an efficient way to search for millisecond and binary pulsars but encounter significant sensitivity degradation while searching for long period and short duty cycle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Shubham Singh , Jayanta Roy , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Ujjwal Panda , Benjamin W. Stappers , Maura A. McLaughlin

We present a novel two-stage approach which combines unsupervised and supervised machine learning to automatically identify and classify single pulses in radio pulsar search data. In the first stage, we identify astrophysical pulse…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 Di Pang , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Thomas Devine , Maura McLaughlin

The Fourier Domain Acceleration Search (FDAS) and Fourier Domain Jerk Search (FDJS) are proven matched filtering techniques for detecting binary pulsar signatures in time-domain radio astronomy datasets. Next generation radio telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Jack White , Karel Adámek , Jayanta Roy , Scott Ransom , Wesley Armour

Modified versions of two "standard" pulsar search techniques are presented that allow large-scale searches for pulsations in long duration high-energy data sets using relatively modest amounts of computer time. For small numbers of photons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott M. Ransom

We investigate the number and type of pulsars that will be discovered with the low-frequency radio telescope LOFAR. We consider different search strategies for the Galaxy, for globular clusters and for galaxies other than our own. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joeri van Leeuwen , Ben Stappers

Pulsar search is one of the main tasks for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), implemented in the central signal processor (CSP) sub-element. As most the characteristics of undiscovered pulsars are unknown by definition, exhaustive searches…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Haomiao Wang , Ben Stappers , Prabu Thiagaraj , Oliver Sinnen

The Square Kilometre Array will be an amazing instrument for pulsar astronomy. While the full SKA will be sensitive enough to detect all pulsars in the Galaxy visible from Earth, already with SKA1, pulsar searches will discover enough…

Glitches are the observational manifestations of superfluidity inside neutron stars. The aim of this paper is to describe an automated glitch detection pipeline, which can alert the observers on possible real-time detection of rotational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-12 Jaikhomba Singha , Avishek Basu , M. A. Krishnakumar , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. Arumugam